Xinghua Village is more than ten miles away, separated by stone mountains, and knows nothing about the war that took place in Jigong Village.
At about three o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yi and others arrived at Xinghua Village. The strategy was the same as that of Jigong Village. Niu Ben ran in front to attract the attention of the thieves. Zhang Yi and Shi Gandang sneaked into the village and opened the gate after a fierce battle. 200 people The soldiers swarmed in.
The thieves have never seen this kind of fighting method before. They were killed or captured in a daze.
After collecting the weapons and imprisoning the prisoners, it was dawn.
Zhang Yi sent people with the flag of Xinghua Village back to Jigong Village to inform Cao Meng, asking him to immediately dispatch three meteor horses to report the good news of the two villages conquered in one night to General Cao, and to convey it to San Jingang and Liang Dingtian. Team of people.
After that, Captain Zhou Rui, who was guarding Jigong Village, had the task of keeping an eye on the guard Cao Meng and making him eat well, but he must not leave Jigong Village, which would be equivalent to putting him under house arrest.
After the arrangements were made, Zhang Yi and others ate and slept, seizing the time to replenish their physical strength. The real battle was still behind.
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At around 9 o'clock in the morning, General Cao, accompanied by the Great King Kong and the Two King Kongs, arrived at the General's Mansion. As soon as he sat down on the big tiger-skin chair, the Meteor Horse came galloping towards him.
"Great victory! Great victory! Zhang Yi's army defeated two villages in one night!"
Hearing the shouts, General Cao and others were stunned.
How is this possible?
The troops were dispatched just before noon yesterday, and it was already evening when they arrived at their destination. They should have set up camp to rest, and waited until dawn to attack the stronghold. General Cao thought that good news would not come until dark today at the earliest. .
When Meteor Horse presented the two flags of Jigong Village and Xinghua Village, as well as a package of gold and silver treasures, General Cao and others realized that a miracle had happened. Zhang Yi's military advisor had really captured two villages in one night. .
"How did he do it?" Donkey Kong asked in shock.
Meteor Ma vividly described how he had sneaked into a surprise attack and attacked head-on to capture the cottage without any effort. He conquered the two major cottages, and no one on our side died in the battle.
General Cao was stunned and speechless for a long time.
He has never used this style of fighting. He has always relied on brute force to attack from the front. At least one hundred and eighty people will die if he takes down a copycat. Therefore, General Cao has never made up his mind to conquer each copycat. Thousands of people will not die at all. Can't do it.
This time Zhang Yi came up with an idea, saying that by conquering 21 mountain strongholds, he could unify the country, so General Cao decided to go to war. He asked King Kong to count them, and found that there were thousands of men in Mopan City who could fight. Guang. Afterwards, 10,000 elite soldiers were selected from the tens of thousands of conquered people.
This account has been calculated and it is worth it.
Therefore, General Cao was mentally prepared. If there were casualties on the front line, King Kong would replenish his troops until he captured twenty-one cottages.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yi's fighting ability was so strong, and he did things that General Cao could never dream of, and achieved amazing results!
"My lord, you should be happy." Seeing that General Cao didn't speak for a long time, Er Jingang said in confusion.
"Oh," General Cao came to his senses and said to Meteor Horse, "go back and tell Commander Zhang Yi that Cao is very happy, very happy. Commander Zhang Yi has made the first contribution and Cao will reward him greatly. , let him win more copycats."
Meteor Ma resigned and went to convey General Cao's words.
"Why is my lord so unhappy?" asked King Kong. He saw General Cao frowning when he said this.
"There are no outsiders now, only you and me," General Cao scratched his knotted beard and said, "To be honest, I think Zhang Yi is so capable. He is not as powerful as our brothers, but he has Brain.”
"Brain is nothing, haha." Er Jingang said disdainfully.
"What are you counting? Counting people, counting grain, counting iron, counting horses, and counting the country!" General Cao said angrily, "Cao's brain is just enlightened. If Cao had known how to calculate, he would have killed the northwest wolf Liu Kai and laid down the enemy. A vast country!"
"Okay, my lord's brain has finally opened up. I'm glad to say that," King Kong said flatteringly, "However, I think lord just needs to make good use of people, such as our brothers and Military Advisor Zhang Yi..."
General Cao stared, and King Kong shut up and remained silent.
After a long time, I only heard one sentence from General Cao.
"Cao is a tiger, Zhang Yi is a dragon, the tiger is fire, and the dragon is water. Do you really think that fire and water can be together?"
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When he slept until noon, someone knocked on the bedroom door and called Zhang Yi to get up.
This was arranged in advance, Zhang Yi was afraid that he would oversleep.
Niu Ben and Shi Gandang fell into a deep sleep, snoring one after another. They worked hard last night and had a hearty meal before going to bed, and were immersed in sleep.
Zhang Yi did not disturb the brothers, got up and left the bedroom. This was a wooden villa, the mansion of the owner of Xinghua Village. He came to the living room, and someone brought a basin of hot water. Zhang Yi washed up and ate two pieces of Xinghua Village. After eating the village's unique apricot blossom cake and a cup of tea, he began to deal with matters.
Two captains came to report the situation.
Each brigade captain oversees 100 people. One of them is named Jiang Hua and the other is Liao Fan. They are both in their early twenties. Like the other brigade captain, Zhou Rui, the three of them are not only strong men but also very smart. , was personally selected by Zhang Yi before the expedition.
"Brother Yi, in the battle of Xinghua Village, a total of 129 thieves were killed and 627 people were captured, including women and children. We only had a few dozen casualties, so it was nothing serious," Jiang Hua reported.
"Very good," Zhang Yi nodded with satisfaction, "understand the situation of each prisoner, find out the gangsters who have killed people, behead them in public, forgive the other thieves, and give them a chance to start a new life."
Jiang Hua accepted the order and immediately executed it.
"Brother Yi, the gold and silver property we seized was packed into 16 boxes, each wooden box weighing 50 kilograms. There are 156 weapons of various types, 17 pairs of armor, 52 war horses, more than 200 cattle, sheep and other livestock, and about 30,000 kilograms of grain. ." Liao Fan held a piece of paper and read out a series of numbers on it.
"Well done!" Zhang Yi said happily, "The gold and silver property has been carefully guarded by soldiers. Armor, weapons and horses are waiting for distribution."
"What about livestock and grain?" Liao Fan asked.
"We will take a small part to supplement military rations, and leave the rest to the people of Xinghua Village," Zhang Yi said.
Liao Fan accepted the order and went to handle it.
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At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Yi woke up Niu Ben and Shi Gandang and took them to a small training ground in the village.
Jiang Hua and Liao Fan gathered everyone in Xinghua Village together.
Zhang Yihao calmed down and told the panicked people that no one would be kidnapped and turned into slaves, and no one would occupy their homes. However, people must change their minds and completely change their past life of stealing and plundering.
The few fields in Xinghua Village, as well as cattle, sheep and other livestock, will be allocated to each household. Next, they will cultivate more fields to achieve self-reliance.
The people in Xinghua Village were shocked. They thought they were either killed or treated as slaves. This was retribution. No one could blame them.
I never expected Zhang Yi to be so kind!
Men, women, old and young fell to their knees, crying and expressing gratitude.
After Baisongling, Xinghuazhai will become the second home for the common people, Zhang Yi thought happily, but he doesn't have time to manage it yet.
Just today, he is going to announce Liang Dingtian's death sentence.